Synonyms of writers

writers

noun

plural of writer

as in authors

a person who creates a written work

a writer who is still trying to get published

Synonyms & Similar Words

• authors
• novelists
• biographers
• poets
• storytellers
• litterateurs
• men of letters
• pens
• women of letters
• screenwriters
• penmen
• scriveners
• bloggers
• playwrights
• wordsmiths
• scribes
• dramatists
• stylists
• columnists
• reporters
• journalists
• scribblers
• ghostwriters
• cowriters
• essayists
• autobiographers
• memoirists
• coauthors
• fictionists
• fictioneers
• scriptwriters
• hagiographers
• auteurs
• belletrists
• memorialists
• fabulists
• pamphleteers
• scenarists
• hacks
• sportswriters
• newspapermen
• romancers
• satirists
• bards
• versifiers
• rhymers
• hatchet men
• wordmongers
• coscenarists
• paragraphers
• prosaists
• prosers
• prosateurs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of writers

Several media chains and hedge funds than own newspapers now judge writers as much by their ability to sell the product (through subscriptions and page views) as the quality of their work. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026

Christiane Zehl Romero, her chief biographer, noted that the bullheaded Bertolt Brecht had benefitted from Seghers’s protective maneuvers, as did rebellious younger writers such as Heiner Müller and Christa Wolf. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

The show’s writers and cast members are generally a diverse group of Gen Z-ers that came up in improv, sketch and standup comedy. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026

As sports writers such as Ethan Strauss and Dan Wetzel have pointed out, Nike didn't drop Clark's shoe until June of this year. — Matt Calkins Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Sugihara cited cuts to arts funding, shifting corporate priorities, industry contractions, mass layoffs and shrinking writers’ rooms. — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026

The use of pseudonyms by female writers born in the nineteenth century is typically understood as a feminist loophole around the patriarchal suppression of women’s writing. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026

Results dropped significantly for mathematics, where writers have fewer choices in wording. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

Michael and Horatio Hirst are showrunners, writers and executive producers. — Mya Copeland, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026